Don Bradley
About Don Bradley
Don Bradley is an author and independent historian specializing in the beginnings of the Restoration. He completed a Bachelor’s in History at BYU and a Master’s in History at Utah State University, where he wrote his thesis on “American Proto-Zionism and the ‘Book of Lehi’: Recontextualizing the Rise of Mormonism.” Don has performed an internship with the Joseph Smith Papers Project working with the earliest Joseph Smith sources. He was the primary researcher for Brian C. Hales’s Joseph Smith’s Polygamy series. He has published on the First Vision, the translation of the Book of Mormon, plural marriage before Nauvoo, Joseph Smith’s “grand fundamental principles of Mormonism,” and the Kinderhook plates. His chapter, with Mark Ashurst-McGee, “‘President Smith has Translated a Portion’: Joseph Smith and the Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates,” won the Mormon History Association’s 2021 “Best Article Award.” His first book is The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s Lost Stories (Greg Kofford Books, 2019). He has further books in progress on Oliver Cowdery as a revelator and translator, and on the origin of Nauvoo polygamy.
Ring in the Christ that Is to Be: Fulfilling the Pattern of His Life
by Don Bradley | Dec 20, 2024 | 4 comments
A Passover Setting for Lehi’s Exodus
by Don Bradley | Nov 29, 2019 | 10 comments
